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Pfft...

So, prior to the Russian Revolution, Russia had very little history with democracy.

The first form of democracy was introduced in the last years of the Empire, in the form of the State Duma. The State Duma functioned as a parliament, whose members were elected on a basis of census suffrage, but had only little actual power.

After the Revolution, several constituent assemblies were held where the Russian people discussed the future of their country. The assembly's ultimate decision for a radical form of socialism (rather than communism) was met with resistance from Lenin and his Bolshevist party, who went on to forcibly seize power and found the Russian Soviet Federalist Socialist Republic. Communism spread to nearby countries, which also transformed into soviet federalist socialist republics. Only a few years later, these soviet federalist socialist republics were united in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, commonly known as the USSR.

Democracy in the Soviet Union was based on the principle of democratic centralism. The idea is that there should be a form of democracy where the unity of government comes before the individual opinions of each politician. By the principle of democratic centralism, everyone within a soviet (political council) is free to be in favor of or against a certain policy, but once a majority of the soviet has reached a decision, each and every member must outwardly support that decision. Tying in with the idea of unity, one political organ cannot go against the decision of a higher political organ. Thus, the soviet of a certain town cannot go against the decision of the soviet federalist socialist republic's national soviet, which in turn can't go against the decision of the USSR's Supreme Soviet in Moscow. Democratic centralism meant a hierarchy in politics.

Furthermore, there is the principle of a vanguard party. According to bolshevism, the communist revolution must be controlled by a vanguard party which can guide the revolution on the right path. Each soviet federalist socialist republic therefore has a communist party that serves as a vanguard party. Soviet elections aren't free, as the list of candidates is made by the vanguard party. Combining the principles of vanguard party and democratic centralism, no national vanguard party can go against the decision of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). The CPSU elected its own Central Committee, which elected the Secretariat, which then elected the Secretary-General / First Secretary. Applying democratic centralism to the CPSU's system, the CPSU became a hierarchic inferior to the Central Committee upon having elected it, which in turn became a hierarchic inferior to the Secretariat upon having elected it, which in its own turn became inferior to the Secretary-General / First Secretary upon having elected him. Thus, the Secretary-General / First Secretary, while ultimately democratically legitimized, became an absolute sovereign upon his election.

Under the ideas of democratic centralism and vanguard party, the extent of democracy in the USSR depended almost exclusively upon how much the Secretary-General / First Secretary allowed, and could therefore change radically with each new Secretary-General / First Secretary.

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excuseth thou, small above-infantile organism that goes by the linnaean classification of “homo sapiens”, but it appears you have gone and mercilessly eliminated what is technically my brethren race known to homo sapiens as “monsters”, and, by extension, the person which I have a strong and blood-bonded relationship to by the notion of what is known as “karma”, I shall now proceed to forcefully offer you what you can universally agreed on as a period of experience of which is generally seen as unpleasant, unwanted, and responsively merciless. I shall now proceed to decimate you with rather senseless jargon of the basketball variety

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